the week's top stories here on r.t. ecuador's president says the fate of fugitive whistleblower edward snowden rests with russia while america's pursuit of the former cia man tests its diplomatic relations with all countries involved in these global movements back to snowden's latest revelations point to a massive u.s. snooping operation targeting european officials in brussels and washington and that the united nations in new york. egypt's president faces a tough challenge to his leadership with an angry crowd set to flood the streets on the first anniversary of his inauguration after a week of deadly rioting by rival political factions. and the first part of a much anticipated addition to russia's navy set sail for france in a joint project expected to revitalize ties between the two nations.

and i welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. with me. now ecuador's president says that the fate of edward snowden and where he ends up next depends on moscow rafael correia stressed that snowden needs to be allowed to reach ecuadorian territory in order for the latin american country to grant his request for political asylum for more on this now we're joined live by artie's medina genova medina what we know about it would always plans regarding snowden. well indeed rochelle falls the solution for the former cia contractor edward snowden and that is the latest from the war now it

could during president in an interview to the media said that the final destination . off mr stone is now in the hands of russia now he as he currently being a stock in the transit zone at the sheer amount of our international airport which is based here in moscow notes that now this announcement comes in the wake of a recent telephone conversation between act with the war in president a fresh air and u.s. vice president joe biden where adequate door was asked to read jack snowden's asylum application now ecuador in president sets of that the final decision while they would listen to the u.s. authorities but that the final decision still rests with appledore nevertheless that provokes some thoughts that ecuador hasn't still made a point on this ongoing saga and this ongoing situation earlier the crew that announced that there are some difficulties and review wing snowden's asylum

application in particular has to be on the country's diplomatic premises meaning that he has to be either in the country where he's speaking in the silent or and the country's embassy in the travel document that was issued for mr snowden as the ecuadorian embassy in london is now invalid it was sad that the diplomats that issued that document closely with the weekly leaks juliana's so much and. nor and president said that it was a jeweler in the summer and who basically recommended mr snowden to seek asylum not with war so all of that information just leads to a maney believe that it was it is becoming quite controversial and that akwa door is basically trying to distance away from the situation where you say that and as we heard the ecuador is also saying that snowden's next move basically is in moscow his hands so what can we expect from moscow. right that's right

well russian president. it's odd word snowden ease a free man and that he has not crossed the russian border as i said before he is in the transit zone at the airport and the u.s. government has revoked his passport which means that he's not able to get out russian visa and leave at the airport but still in the u.s. the story does have the os russia two x. three dice mr snowden however there is no x. tradition treaty between the two countries now mainly russian human rights activist and now stepping up in support of mr snowden urging that there should be no extradition and the had hoped for in the first committee aleksey scoffed wrote in his twitter that the extradition off political refugee is morally unacceptable but as the story develops of the even as well ian president nicolas maduro will arrive

in moscow this a monday and there are some spock elations that he has visited so would actually resolve the situation in a way that we thank you very much for the. port in moscow thank you what human rights activist peter tatchell says america is showing deep hypocrisy in its time big of snowden. this is rogue spying by a rogue state i mean if it was edward snowden had been an iranian whistleblower who exposed global snooping by the terran regime i think he would have been hailed by the united states as a horowitz whistleblower he would have been lauded and pray i think the united states has incredible double standards it is pursuing a man who is motivated not by hatred of his country not by any financial gain he's

not out to aid any enemy country he is motivated by idealism and a belief in the human rights that we all have a right to privacy. and artie's the bang not say now reports on the continuing diplomatic spat over america's most wanted man. bunnings and snowden i'm twenty nine years old as soon as edward snowden revealed himself as the whistle he set off a catch me if you can hunch by the u.s. government want to get him caught and away is he now guessing game for the media so where is it after a tip off that snowden was on board a flight from hong kong to moscow the media started speculating as to his next move edward snowden slew from hong kong to moscow say that he will be able to have on the flight. the situation descended into a fog when a crowd of journalists boarded a flight from moscow to havana only to find that the whistleblower was not on board a presumed to be stuck in an airport transit say tonight it's not clear where it

would snowden is there's a couple assertions the accused n.s.a. leaker was expected on a flight from moscow to cuba but he never boarded the plane but with no word from the whistleblower and no sighting it was all just a guessing game it was still possible snowden would board the plane somewhere on the tarmac he didn't and we took off without him so we committed to a twelve hour plus flight that was essentially a waste of time the global public city had turned one of america's most wanted man into a hero for some to others i think he's a traitor i think he has. committed crimes and in fact by violating agreements given the position he had. several countries have been tangled up in this case the with the veiled threats from washington and bag and forth rhetoric we've registered our strong objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and we know that such

behavior is the detrimental to us hong kong and us china bilateral relations you know it would be deeply troubling obviously if they have adequate notice notwithstanding that. as for the possibility of extradition we can only hand over foreign state nationals today states that we have a relevant violates international agreement on the extradition of criminals we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination because snowden things have moved beyond mere rhetoric that countries move to scrap a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses standing its ground in the face of america's pressure as good as government is also said to be divided the safe passage document dated twenty second of june obtained by weeklies will snowden from the ecuadorian embassy in london was not authorized with fractions of the ecuadorian government i know it that a sunday was now running the show for the delaying his asylum request meanwhile the

mystery continues as to snowden is the next move he's now waiting at present korea to make a decision on the asylum application without a pressure from the u.s. also in him not to grant it the door and president also said that the media attention surrounding snowden has actually diverted from the real story that of the n.s.a. surveillance documents but by snowden's own admission this was never going to be a story with a fairytale ending you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. what edward snowden's latest revelation. it's about u.s. surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union with institutions bugged and computer networks hacked the story broken by the news magazine dispy google is based on a classified n.s.a.

document from twenty ten artie's peter all of us has the details what's the the the documents that says that they received through edward snowden were able to see part of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u. just about everywhere they could that they were tapping phones they were hacking their computer networks at the u.n. in washington d.c. also that there were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of . phone tapping and computer hacking there as well germany came out as one of the countries that was most bite on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a. one interesting part of this article says that you were a target a definite target for this type of surveillance and also says that five years ago the e.u. itself. looked into phone calls that had been made to them had traced phone calls

apparently back to a n.s.a. office that was based inside the later compound in brussels so they certainly had suspected that they were under surveillance but it's a very different thing suspecting that somebody is watching you to then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they're watching you indeed load finished the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament explains why he thinks the united states chose the e.u. its close ally as a target. my educated guess is that this has or having to do with economic spying on the e.u. the e.u.'s for example is stronger than ever militarily even technologically i mean the internet is an american invention but on the economic level it is losing ground everywhere hugely see what the brics countries there are doing there the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush to africa with latin america and the u.s.

doesn't seem to get its economic. priorities imposed as it used to so our days here and here is a big risk for economic spying is while the u.s. government maintains that its controversial prison surveillance program is essential for national security but as our sees it in english to report the economic the electronic snooping operation is not as powerful as it might say. and there is suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers data from the internet big players such as google facebook and so on but most of those who look forward to harvest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called under web none of these resources in that realm are actually indexed by the major search engines in fact google how that one point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you

imagine it as an iceberg that you can understand that prism only covers the very top the very tip of the iceberg the rest of the information is actually not covered by prism according to dutch intelligence service but sensual terrorists go to these core forums which are highly encrypted and hidden deep within the web so one really needs to know what they're looking for and where to find it a case in point could be the brothers they have turned to one of the more no radical sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the web sites existence is no secret for some reason u.s. security services failed to track down the brothers activity even after a tip off from russia and thereby they failed to prevent the boston bombings so although the cia and the n.s.a. say their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's e-mails. we're going to take a short break now but the still plenty more to come this hour including i'm welcome

return fierce and to us price at st barack obama on his second visit to africa as washington's policies on the continent dr increasingly unpopular. they were ready to do anything for their country to lead us to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but i'll ever

good people get hurt. but i have heard good people them to be silent. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because i. i saw some people who. is cheaper than therapy. on our. cut out again in egypt tensions boiled over again this week in the run up to today's one year anniversary of mohamed morsi as rice to the presidency the armrest flared up. controversial speech given by these alarmist leader anti-government

protesters clashed with morsy supporters resulting in several deaths however the largest demonstration is yet to come it's been announced for later today people are already gathering into his square the opposition is so far of willing to make any compromises and says it's determined to oust the president artie's beller true that the people at the grass roots of the dissent. every day local graffiti artists. paint a new anti government just cairo's tahrir square is latest to mark a nationwide protest sunday is in support of tomorrow meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi how could the model but as a citizen i just want food health services and education we don't have these instead morsi gave is just three pieces of bread a day you can see by his belly he eats term in one meal. frustrated like many threw his support behind tomorrow which has gathered over eighteen million

signatures they hope to install a transitional government and coup early presidential elections tomorrow a person's right to use can be found in the prospect capital not everyone believes that president morsi step down however the campaign has highlighted key problems in egypt's economy is in freefall as a worsening fuel and water shortages and a bread crisis on the horizon rights groups say that abuses and torture are rampant meanwhile the government continues to restrict basic freedoms. sentenced to prison for working for pro-democracy and egypt says the explosion of post revolution groups involved in civic engagement like tomorrow has been matched by government crackdowns you have activists being arrested to moderate campaign and and other areas you've had bad buildings they ransacked all and it's sort of continuing on with this conspiracy that's pushed by the by the government and by state activists against the people to imply that the civil side to threaten our national security

muslim brotherhood officials for their part have said that many of those coming out on june thirtieth are folks and the problem is egypt predate that president. thirty years of dictatorship of course. still we are suffering so we need. these four years that people can judge really if he could really deal with these struggles however millions agree that morsi should be blamed over they still have to strike in the cold as to what exactly they want to replace him with tomorrow maybe people or idea around that today those are called the thirtieth of june front they decided that they want to go with this political map that involves an includes the military for instance for internal security and this is something that others like me and other movements as well totally disagree with so you will have these two different views. coming up and in the future whatever the president's reaction

to the mass protest movement it's clear that it's not going to date with june thirtieth set to become one of the biggest challenges yet to egypt's beleaguered leader boucherie from r.t. cairo. meanwhile a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from egypt's parliament in support of the ongoing opposition rallies side sadek from the american university in cairo believes another uprising could be imminent as the islamist president hasn't delivered on his promises the first one is not the all knowing the objectives of the evolution to he was full salute they think is only good at the expense of the national interests of the country and also they feel that. if if the if the remain silent on them is still in school years egypt would become like somalia sudan they were looking at egypt would be there's absolutely sure that is going to be very shocked like what happened during the revolution but islamists

who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and not intervene and lives in iraq you want to hang on that spring is about pulling into account the government now before you you have to account the president because of the one you if you could deliver what people expect. this week saw a new milestone in relations between moscow and paris is the stern of russia's first class helicopter carrier was launched in simply does the first part of a long awaited addition to the country's navy when i've traveled to france to be completed. was at the launch. if you think. this is. true love that fine ground according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in

st petersburg will play a vital role in the fabrication of vessels the section built here will soon had to france for completion before making the return journey to enter the service in russia's navy although there's no champagne available to celebrate here today because a bottle of it was just smashed on the new ship or rather on this section of a new ship it's still a big day for a big ship it was law on the mistral class warships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to forty tanks or armored vehicles and around six hundred troops and a range of around forty thousand kilometers they will end over a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important it is a multipurpose vessel if. this ship is like a swiss knife it can be used both for military and civilian purposes it's a hospital it's a command point it's an assault ship and it's a headquarters it would be great for each of our four sleeps to have the ship

however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's own ship builders complain the fronts put a huge order to sort of the mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just recently emerged that the two miss truck lost warships will not be able to operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for the navy and dependence on a foreign supply chain others argue it's a win win situation for both countries france gets an order worth over a billion euro which will keep many of its shipbuilders in business more important now than ever because of the ongoing eurozone debt crisis while russia gets a warship that will consider. oddly boost its military capacity and also gains access to the very latest naval technology the first ship is expected to join russia's navy by the end of next year with another want follow and as to whether this one deal will lead to closer ties with perry's mosco will simply have to wait

to see which way the wind blows. our team st petersburg. america's list of most wanted terrorists has just got a little shorter as we report on our website find out how a somali group with links to al qaida lost its top commanders one of them with a five million dollar u.s. banti on his head without american forces having to lift a finger and video game magic comes to be a real life rescue is it's being used to create cyborg cockroaches we explain how they could be vital help disaster sites that are take dot com. u.s. president who is on his first visit to africa since two thousand and nine has pledged seven billion dollars to help build up the shaky electric power grids of sub saharan countries the move being seen as an effort by washington to step in and

rival china as a key investor on the continent barack obama has been met by protesters angry at unfulfilled pledges he made last time around washington has slashed aid to africa in recent years while stepping up controversial military activity in the region as anti-american protests spiraled out of control in johannesburg stun grenades and warning shots were fired by riot police hundreds have also been demonstrating in pretoria and cape town south african politicians solly mark pilar says america's pursuit of its economic interests comes at a heavy price for the continent. exposure programs. for instance this published model the offical common. it's an indication of where u.s. image an interest on the kind of can clinton and we want him to stop that and also . minutes out of bases all over the way that the u.s. has guards in order as i do can have. well it's kind of diplomatic relations as

well as trade relations why not that's not a look at polls through a system where the government can gauge who the usa on trade relations quoted as saying they must be cautious about this because this sure had this huge imbalance between which has in the us a and particularly noting that spare us is more than ten times the g.d.p. of the entire african continent so there's no interest or. rights to a democratic dispensation on the continent and development that many africans have made me sick to choose for themselves. britain has signaled a change in its attitude to the taliban in afghanistan and is now urging the militant group to enter the political process prime minister david cameron made a surprise visit to the country on saturday afghan president hamid karzai says he still willing to talk to the taliban despite an attack on the presidential palace earlier this week the incident on cheese day once again undermined peace

negotiations washington is currently preparing for treatment for all at the end of next year having failed to bring stability to the nation after almost twelve years of war jerry van dyke former t.v. correspondent and taliban expert believes the militants are unlikely to see a compromise originally we went into afghanistan soley to destroy to dismantle to destroy if you will the taliban government and to destroy the al qaeda this war has morphed into it's evolved into a war against the taliban the taliban as the military will tell you are on the ascendancy they are not losing they're willing to they're willing to continue to go forward all been noticed proclaiming to the world that they are a sovereign nation by calling themselves islamic emirate of afghanistan that they will not negotiate as long as any troops are left in foreign troops are left to afghanistan so how do you say you're going to win if you're going to leave and you haven't won the war so you have two governments you have the government of

afghanistan in the eyes of the world this is a separate government of the taliban the president of afghanistan and the people who know what this. is going to help us one here in moscow just ahead we investigate the alarming suicide rate among young us war veterans in beer is cheaper than therapy. i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by

cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need tracheotomy and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital an administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medicare fraud for giving and receiving kickbacks not only is having a hole punched in your neck for money discussed thing but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients at other hospitals from tracheotomies throughout the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this with three employees ratted out the hospital and worked with the f.b.i. to make a lot of incriminating voice recordings these people risk their jobs and possibly much more to do what was right and i salute them reading out evil is no wrong deed

but that's just my opinion. i. love. what it's all about you come and do this all night and i'm so it's.